Please help me convert my wife.

I am desperately trying to reduce my at home Support / Administration of systems by converting my wife to the Mac. She has two remaining issues and I am hoping that someone out there can come up with solutions for both.

1. Smilies or Smileys - She loves using these in her emails and I was shocked when she pointed out that they are not available in OS X mail. (I just assumed that they would be there since the Mac is a fun and easy to use computer). How can I add Smileys to OS X mail?

2. Stationary - My wife also uses stationary occasionally for her email and I was also surprised that this is not a standard feature in OS X mail. How can I add stationary to OS X mail?

I am really trying to have her stick with all of the standard applications that Tiger offers and .Mac syncs to eliminate any administration/backup of her email, address book, favorites and calendar.

i think that smileys can't be seen on OSX mail, but other mail clients can see it. its just you can't see it on osx mail.

i have a friend that loves macs, but refused to convert because of one thing: it dosen't have the display picture feature in msn! that was a couple of months ago and now that he dosent have an excuse anymore because he found out about msn alternatives like aduim, he's dreaming about powerbook alternatives like acer ferrari, which i think is not a good idea, or dell, alienware, or ibm. man what a wuss. "but the msn for mac dosen't let me look at my friend's picture! macs stink!"

to be honest, and not to offend you, your wife is spoiled and blinded from the fact that her operating system is junk. she has the same symtoms as my friend, not looking at the benefits of using a mac and always look at the compromises like smileys. if i were you, i would put tons of spyware, and viruses on her current computer to let her know the real pain of mac converts before they converted

try convincing her that she can still use Hotmail on macs, um, tell her that microsoft office on mac is superior to windows versions, she will be more confortable and safe on macs, and oh: windows stinks! .

I don't think I could marry a woman who used that awful ring binder stationary graphics and stupid emoticons that take up entirely too much time to download in mail, often times mess up attachments, etc.

Of course, your mileage may vary, but i'd hire a divorce lawyer STAT and find a woman who can get by with plain text emails.

I would imagine the Entourage would do both of these things pretty well

Lanman said:

I am desperately trying to reduce my at home Support / Administration of systems by converting my wife to the Mac. She has two remaining issues and I am hoping that someone out there can come up with solutions for both.

1. Smilies or Smileys - She loves using these in her emails and I was shocked when she pointed out that they are not available in OS X mail. (I just assumed that they would be there since the Mac is a fun and easy to use computer). How can I add Smileys to OS X mail?

2. Stationary - My wife also uses stationary occasionally for her email and I was also surprised that this is not a standard feature in OS X mail. How can I add stationary to OS X mail?

I am really trying to have her stick with all of the standard applications that Tiger offers and .Mac syncs to eliminate any administration/backup of her email, address book, favorites and calendar.

2. Stationary - My wife also uses stationary occasionally for her email and I was also surprised that this is not a standard feature in OS X mail. How can I add stationary to OS X mail?Please help she is very high maintenance on Windows!!!!
Dan

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If you could get her to acquiese to the use of "Stationery" rather than "Stationary", she might move.
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I can't believe that such a simple function can not be replicated on OS X mail.

I never use the smiles in my email but MANY people do use them in their email, MSN chat, AIM, iChat and forum postings. Just because you and I do not use them doesnt mean that I should be in denial that they are very popular.

FYI - Moxiemike, You used an emoticon in your posting above. Interesting.....

I can't believe that such a simple function can not be replicated on OS X mail.

I never use the smiles in my email but MANY people do use them in their email, MSN chat, AIM, iChat and forum postings. Just because you and I do not use them doesnt mean that I should be in denial that they are very popular.

Dan

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Let's just boil this argument down to two extremes, that pretty sum up the mac vs windows debate:

Macintosh. Elegant. Functional. Clean interface. Funky. Part of the underground. All this leans to the exclusion of something as trivial as smileys in mail

It's basically like saying that BMW should add a feature to their cars that you find only in lesser cars. Or asking, say, a great jazz musician to play a britney spears song. I mean, sure, in the end, it's pretentious and snobby as hell... but it's surely fun to muse over on slow fridays.

I really want to convert my house to the Mac to simplify my life. I manage an IT department at a financial institution by day (600 PCs and 100+ servers) and I just want my computers at home to work. I exclusively use a PowerBook at home and have absolutely no issues at all.

No, I don't think there's a way to get Mail (Apple's mail client to do this), but someone earlier mentioned Thunderbird, and that might be worth a try for a potential switcher.

I know Thunderbird can use Templates (and, even if I'm not entirely sure how Stationary works, my guess is that this is very similar features). Smiles are worse, but there almost certainly should be an extension that will add Smily capability to Thunderbird. Extensions are one of Firefox/Thunderbird's greatest strengths...

OK so I downloaded Thunderbird and played around with it and went looking for an extension like Mitthrawnuruodo said. Thunderbird do not have smilies but you can download an extension that will allow you to insert smilies from here. You will have to find your own smilies and import them though but its not like the internet isn't screaming with them anyway.

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